This side might be termed the rationalist school of Christmas, the Hayek side, the conservative side, the realist side, even the masculine side.

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At the core of the predominant current Western assessment lies the assumption that Gorbachev is, at a fundamental level, a Western rationalist in a modern mold.

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Philosophers, to prevent their works (or themselves) being burnt, were obliged to dedicate them to the proper authorities, even if the rationalist content was actually subversive.

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Rather than simply rejecting the creation myth on rationalist grounds, he finds in it symbols and metaphors which reveal how much surprising continuity there has been in human thinking about our origins.

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I'm too much of a rationalist for that.

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This uneasy tension is exacerbated by the perceived intention of American liberals to reunite the Western world by making America more like contemporary Europe more top-down, more bureaucratic, more official, more collectivist, more rationalist.

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Dovzhenko depicts such ardent figures as a crazed monk who looms over the embattled forests, maidens at their riverside rite, and two grandsons on divergent paths (an ineffectual nationalist and a rationalist revolutionary) with a spontaneous sympathy for their diverse forms of zealotry.

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Rand was an uncompromising rationalist.

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Moreover, a liberal such as this reformed ex-rationalist might also argue, albeit while in the throes of sleep deprivation and having suffered from multiple starvation-induced hallucinations, that gift-giving is a social good because it tends to redistribute income from the top to the bottom.

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